User talk:Rene Willemsen

Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created Adler and Allan, and I noticed that your username, "Adler & Allan", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username, by completing this form, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 15:00, 6 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

September 2017

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Adler and Allan. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 15:01, 6 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, Rene Willemsen, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

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The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! 331dot (talk) 15:12, 6 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I urge you to review the above information and links before you edit further. Generally one should not directly edit in areas where they have a conflict of interest. If you are an employee of the company, it is also required by Wikipedia's Terms of Use to comply with the paid editing policy(see above) if you have a paid editing relationship; you can be blocked from editing if you fail to declare a paid relationship. 331dot (talk) 15:21, 6 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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20:03, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 09:23, 8 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

hi 331dot, i know you replied at the teahouse (i believe that is where i needed to post things) however would you be able to tell me why all the current information has now been removed as i didn't upload this?

The current info and the Adler and Allan page shouldn't have been removed as i didn't post this.

please help i am very new to Wikipedia and get a bit confused with the messaging and information.

kind regards,

Rene

Hello. I looked at the page's edit history(which you can see yourself by clicking the "View history" tab at the top of the article) and most of the information was removed by Theroadislong as it was not sourced to an independent reliable source. The removed information reads as a company description that would be better suited to a company website.(regardless of who put it there) To be frank with you, Wikipedia has no interest in what a company wishes to say about itself, or how it wants to be portrayed. Wikipedia is only interested in what independent reliable sources state about an article subject, as the purpose of Wikipedia is to summarize those sources. If there are factual errors or missing information in an article, we want to know about it, but again, the article must almost exclusively contain independently sourced information. Information appearing in press releases or a company website would be from a primary source and only allowed in very limited circumstances.

If you have independent sources that provide information about this company and indicate how it meets the notability guidelines for companies listed at WP:ORG, please offer them on the article talk page.

As I stated at the Teahouse, please review WP:COI and WP:PAID(if you are paid) as soon as possible, and them make the appropriate declarations. Thanks 331dot (talk) 11:35, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I reviewed your suggestion to Theroadislong, and it is not acceptable for precisely the reasons I describe above. It offers no independent reliable sources. The article about your company is not a forum for you as what I assume to be its representative to post how the company wishes to be described.

I must ask you one last time to indicate that you have read and complied with the conflict of interest and paid editing polices. Failing to comply with the paid editing policy is a violation of Wikipedia's Terms of Use and you can be blocked from editing until you comply(if you are a paid company representative or employee). I apologize for sounding harsh, but these are important policies. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 12:23, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Conflicts of Interest

Hi! Based on your editing, it seems that you may have a conflict of interest in regard to the Adler and Allan article. That's ok in itself - you can certainly continue to help develop the article - but Wikipedia asks that contributors with a conflict of interest declare that they have a COI, and that they try not to edit the article directly - instead it is best if you offer changes on the discussion page for the article. I think that the changes you are making will be good, but it would help if we could look at how best to make them, and especially if we could look at how to source much of the material, as that would make for a better article and help stay within Wikipedia's policies. I'm very happy to help where I can. - Bilby (talk) 09:36, 8 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

February 2018

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Talk:Adler and Allan, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 13:03, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion (but never when editing articles), such as at Talk:Adler and Allan, please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either:

Add four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment; or
With the cursor positioned at the end of your comment, click on the signature button ( in the enhanced toolbar, or if you use the old "classic" toolbar) located above the edit window.

This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is necessary to allow other editors to easily see who wrote what and when.

Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 13:46, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]